comprehendo

Latin

verb
Definitions
  • to lay hold of something on all sides; take take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
  • to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture of a place; arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
  • (to a crime or deed) to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
  • (of space) to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
  • (figuratively) to shut in, to include
  • to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
  • (figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows

Etymology

Affix from Latin prehendō (seize, grasp, take, catch, lay hold of) root from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (seize, take, grasp, hold).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʰed-

Gloss

seize, take, grasp, hold

Concept
Semantic Field

Possession

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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